Zoran Habot
Until 2014, it was in Formulas 1 the rule that the starting number on the race car means the ranking of the team last season. The better the team, the lower the number of racers. The worse the team, the higher the number of racers. But today we will not talk about the rules, but we will look at what and how happened to the racers who started with the number 22.
Statistics show that the number 22 on the race car most often finished at 8. place. Up to eight places, but he teased Alfin race car with number 22, in the XNUMXs of the last century.
Before the number assignment rule, it is in 1951 of 22 won the championship Formula 1 Juan Manuel Fangio. In addition Fangia longed Jo Siffert in Dan Gurney the only ones that are in the early years World Cup won with number 22.
Even the recently deceased, Sir Stirling Moss, is on its first race Formula 1, at the Belgian GP in 1954 with Maserati, which bore the number 22, finished on the podium.
With number 22 they raced as well Nino Farina, Mike Hawthorn, Jack Brabham, Graham Hill, Phil Hill, John Surtees, Jim Clark, Alan Jones, Nelson Piquet on his first race and Mario Andretti upon returning to Formula 1 with Alfa Romeo 1978. Andretti is managed to repeat Fangio's success, to from Alfa Romeo and number 22, became world champion.
When it's years 1999 Jacques Villeneuve launched Williams and joined the new team BAR, the latter had to take over the numbers Tyrrell, which was in 1998, 11 in the design sum.
That's right Villeneuve was the 12th world champion to race with the number 22. Villeneuve he didn’t become a champion again, but he is a racer who is attributed 22 points to number 2000. Of all the racers, however, it is Andrea De Cesaris the one who performed in most races with a number 22. Namely what on 78 races.
From year 2000 to 2006, numbers 22 nor used by no team. In 2006 however, the number was returned by the team Super Aguri. Super Aguri he wasn’t too successful, but he should have had a number in 2008 22 hand over to new teams Force India, which arose from the former Spyker. But this did not happen, because the team is the winning team Mclaren, the Spygate affair cost all points in the constructors ’championship. That meant it was number 22 was given to Lewis Hamilton. And right Hamilton is a number 22 made excellent use of and became 13th racer to become world champion
In season 2009 however, there have been quite a few changes since the team Super Aguri she left into history. Hondo he bought Ross Brawn and it all seemed like number 22 wouldn’t be on the scene. Namely, there are only 10 teams left. FIA has redistributed the numbers and Brawn gp he should be racing with numbers 20 and 21. But because he is FIA very late put together the assigned numbers and is a team Force India has already prepared all the promotional material, asked the umbrella organization if it can still use numbers 20 and 21. As the Ross Brawn agreed, they are Jenson Button in Rubens Barrichello, got numbers 22 and 23. Thus in 2009 there were no numbers 18 and 19 in Formula 1.
Button is years old 2009 due to the so-called double diffuser on the race car Brawn gp, became world champion, although the competition almost caught up with them in the second half of the season. Interestingly, it is the No. 22 racer became world champion for the second year in a row.
Leta 2010 je BMW launched Formula 1. That's why Peter sauber redeemed his team and got the numbers 22 in 23.
Although the numbers were projected for a never-realized team US F1. Years 2011 in 2012 is the team HRT racing with numbers 22 and 23. Years 2013 but it is with a number 22 za Marussio raced great talent, deceased Jules Bianchi.
For the summer 2014 so changed the policy and everyone could choose their number, with which he will race in Formula 1. In Button je in memory of its successful 2009 season, chose prav 22 and used it until the year 2016when he retired. Number 22 he then used it for years as well 2017when for GP Monaco returned to the team McLaren instead Fernanda Alonso, who took part in the famous race Indy 500.
Since retirement Jenson Buttn, is also a number 22 remained unoccupied and waits for a new racer to pick her up.
